Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
Versioning on list items and document library files works well, but versioning on pages has always lacked something in my opinion. The description of what changed wasn’t always helpful if you were trying to get back to a version of a page prior to changes. Now with the SharePoint page difference visualization feature in version history, it’s easy to see what version you need to restore. Here’s how it works…
There are many times when you want to take a quick survey via email for some topic… like what everyone might like for lunch. You can do that with the Quick Polling feature in Outlook on the Web. It’s very easy to use and gets you the answers you need with very little effort. Here’s how it works…
If you’re used to using an email application like Gmail, you’ve likely seen (and used) the Suggested Replies feature, where short one-click answers are provided to speed up your email processing. Outlook on the Web now has that same feature, and it’s pretty cool. Here’s how it works…
Recently Microsoft Teams offered a standard set of background images for your Microsoft Teams meetings. You *could* add your own images, but it was more of a hack and wasn’t something you’d necessarily want to advertise. Now, there’s an easy way to do this, and here’s how it works…
One of the latest changes to show up for SharePoint Online is the ability to have audience targeting apply to specific links in your navigation in Modern sites and pages. This means that you can have certain navigational links show up only to specific groups of people who are part of an Active Directory group. Here’s how it works…
While Microsoft Teams is a great way to keep information consolidated for your work, the capability to find things in various chats and channels has been somewhat limited. With the addition of enhanced searching in Microsoft Teams, that now becomes much easier. Here’s what it looks like and how it works…
Being able to easily access version history on files is a real benefit, especially when it comes to files stored on OneDrive. Now you can get to the version history in your synced OneDrive files using tools like File Explorer. This helps you avoid having to go into OneDrive on the browser to figure out if you need to restore an earlier version of a file. Here’s how it works…
One of the latest efforts by Microsoft is to have a unified search experience across all elements in Microsoft 365, such as Word, PowerPoint, and now SharePoint Online. Here’s what it looks like and how it improves the focus of your searches…
OneDrive is a great tool, but it can be a bit difficult when it comes to finding what you’ve shared with whom, and whether you need to do some permission clean-up. By using the OneDrive Sharing Report, you can get all this information in an easy-to-read Excel spreadsheet. Here’s how that works…
